Deuteronomy 32:5

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They have acted corruptly toward Him; they are not His children because of their defect—a crooked and perverse generation.

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  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered, 'O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.'
  • Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.'
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverted generation. Among them, you shine as lights in the world,
  • Luke 9:41 : 41 Jesus answered, 'You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.'
  • John 8:41 : 41 You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that, just as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your minds may be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • Judg 2:19 : 19 But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept discipline.’ Then her dwelling would not be destroyed, despite all that I have appointed against her. But they arose early and corrupted all their deeds.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet." Then He left them and went away.
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all flesh had ruined their way on the earth.
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves."
  • Deut 4:16 : 16 Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I first knew you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 76%

    18You ignored the Rock who begot you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    19The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.

    20He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

  • 8They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

  • 6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?

  • 4Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.

  • 4The Rock—His work is perfect, for all His ways are just. A faithful God without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

  • 28All of them are stubborn rebels, going about with slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

  • 9These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.

  • 15Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.

  • Exod 32:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves."

    8They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

  • 4Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?

  • 7They have been unfaithful to the Lord; they have had illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them along with their fields.

  • 10That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.'

  • 39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  • 8They are sons of fools, nameless men, driven out from the land.

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

    57They turned back and were disloyal like their ancestors; they became twisted like a deceitful bow.

  • 3They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.

  • 4If your children have sinned against Him, He gave them over to the consequences of their transgressions.

  • 70%

    11There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

    12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth.

  • 37Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.

  • 19But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

  • 10For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are filled with destruction. Their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

  • 7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they dealt treacherously with Me.

  • 25When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • 4Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

  • 3Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.

  • 23But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

  • 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

  • 14They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.

  • 7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • 14"Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

  • 3God looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.

  • 7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

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    31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede this.

    32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous, and their clusters are bitter.

  • 17Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just.

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

  • 5This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • 24‘No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the LORD’s people is not good.’

  • 12All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

  • 34They set up detestable idols in the house that bears My name and defiled it.

  • 20Those with twisted hearts are detestable to the Lord, but His delight is in those whose ways are blameless.

  • 30I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

  • 28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • 16But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.